I run a food city in the last days

They soon arrived at the residence of the first person who died. Thankfully, although there were traces of scorpions everywhere, the main body of the building was still well preserved, and since the death occurred not long ago, the room was still basically The original appearance is retained.

Jiang Yiyin walked in and looked around, then suddenly asked: "Did anything special happen to this person before he died?"

Everyone now realized that she felt that the target of the mutated scorpion's sneak attack was not unlucky, but had some special meaning.

But this question stumped the base commander. He frowned and said: "It's unusual to say that. Among the few people who died, several were teammates who often went on missions together. But I don't know what happened before. Clear."

She frowned slightly, and suddenly noticed the thoughtful look of the man on guard from the corner of her eye, so she asked, "Do you know anything?"

The other party was startled and replied hesitantly: "I thought of something, but I don't know if it's relevant."

"Just say it." The base commander encouraged him.

He recalled while saying: "I happened to be responsible for guarding the base gate that day. When they came back, I heard a few words saying that these things were weird. It seemed that they also mentioned that Eden had a mission to collect these weird things. , guess how many crystal cores the thing they got can be exchanged for."

"So before they died they actually got something that Eden might be interested in?" she confirmed.

But the other party looked unsure: "I don't know if it is specific, I just vaguely heard a few words at the time."

She nodded and asked, "What is that mission in Eden?"

Gu Huaiting answered her: "It is a long-term mission assigned a long time ago, specifically to collect some things of unknown use. The Garden of Eden will reward different levels of crystal nuclei and recovery food based on the estimated price."

Something with an unknown purpose... For some reason she thought of the metal piece in her hand that also had an unknown purpose.

Oh no, it should be called a broken metal ball now.

Frowning slightly, she stopped worrying about the task: "Then do you know what they got?"

"Then I don't know. It's someone else's trophy. Asking too much can easily lead to misunderstandings." The other party waved his hands repeatedly.

This is true, but then the clue is lost.

Sighing softly, she whispered: "Go and visit the next deceased person's home."

Everyone had no other choice but to go to the next scene, but still found nothing.

And then the third.

This time the base commander said: "This is the last person from that team to die."

They checked the scene carefully as usual, but fortunately this time they didn't run away in vain, and she found some clues.

The deceased had the habit of keeping a diary. On the day when he heard them talking about unexpected gains, he wrote in his diary:

Today we were lucky enough to find a nest of mutant animals, and the harvest was not small. In addition to shells, spines and poison sacs that can be exchanged for supplies, this nest of mutant animals also provided us with a small batch of crystal nuclei.

Great, now we don't have to go out on missions for at least half a month. It just so happens that my waist has been feeling uncomfortable these past few days. It's good news that I can have a good rest.

We also found some messy things in the nest. The mutant creature's hobby is really incomprehensible. It drags everything into the nest.

In addition to the messy blades of grass, there were also torn jackets picked up from nowhere, glass marbles, chipped cups, and metal pieces with no apparent purpose.

Forget about other things, the metal piece is a bit interesting. The dense lines on it look particularly high-tech. The captain said that this thing can be taken to the people in Eden to see, and maybe it can be exchanged for some crystal cores.

We all agreed and planned to find a way to show it to the Garden of Eden envoy in a few days.

……

Her eyes stopped on this page for a long time. She didn't expect that her casual guess turned out to be a prophecy. The "weird thing" they picked up turned out to be a piece of metal.

According to the description in the diary, it feels like the thing in her hand is the same.

While thinking about it, a new mission was released. She felt that she had guessed the content of the mission, so she called up the backstage and took a look, and sure enough——

Find the missing pieces. Success reward: blue diamond*50.

The short mission description meant that the mission was not difficult. Combined with the unfinished mission and the encounter at Shaping Base, she thought she knew where the fragments were.

Finger caressing the words "mutated animal lair" in the diary, she suspected that what they found was the scorpion's lair.

It was just that I didn’t know why the Scorpion King was not there at the time, so they picked it up and took away the metal piece.

She still remembers the situation in the Thorn Forest. The mutated thorns tightly wrapped the entire armory, and she tried to snatch it after breaking open the special safe. It can be seen that the metal fragments with unknown effects are actually very powerful against mutated creatures. Because of their attraction, I'm afraid they died inexplicably because they took away the Scorpion King's treasure.

She also looked at the next few scenes and found no useful clues. However, a few people at the Shaping base remembered that although the other dead members were not from this team, they were actually related to the dead team members. It's better, as long as we are all at the base, we will always get together.

Although there is no evidence, the causes of their deaths are basically connected in series.

The subsequent deaths were probably even more unjust. They probably just saw it at the party, or touched the metal fragments, and got some aura, and then they were targeted by the scorpions.

She shook her head, thinking that this was probably the fate that the King of Hell wanted you to die in the middle of the night.

Now that people have been dead for several days, there is no use thinking about it anymore. She quickly put her thoughts back and began to think about the whereabouts of the Scorpion King.

Assuming that it has obtained the metal fragments, it instructs the scorpions to attack the Shaping base, which is probably an act of revenge.

But it didn't appear. Was it trying to hide the fragments?

No, the location of the Scorpion King indicated by the system is in the Shaping base, so it should still be here, but it has never shown up.

She touched her chin and suddenly asked the system in her mind: "The strongest desire of mutant creatures is to gain stronger power. Both the Scorpion King and the mutant thorn value metal fragments so much. Is it because they can increase their strength?"

The system tablet spit out one word without any ripples: "Yes."

"That Scorpion King..." A cold light flashed in her eyes, "Is he about to advance?"

Apart from that, she couldn't think of any other important things that would allow it to ignore the massacre of its tribe.

That is the existence that is already king. If it advances again, it will be harder to kill. It must be found as soon as possible.